Posted on 08/11/2005 6:55:57 AM PDT by WackySam
Casey Sheehan was a re-enlistee with the Army's 1st Cavalry. He knew he was going to fight. He understood that. He embraced it. He fought like a soldier. And like a soldier he died, killed in April of 2004, in Sadr City, Iraq.
Casey's mom, Cindy, doesn't quite get it. She is a mother who has lost her son to a war. Convinced she knows more about the costs of war than other parents who've suffered similar loss, she has parked herself outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. Full of judgment and hate, calling him "selected," not elected, blaming him personally for the death of her son, this clueless woman is going to sit there until the President comes out. She's going to set him straight.
Cindy Sheehan is another bereaved parent that the anti-Iraq War movement has run its game on. Manipulating her in her sadness and anger, they've created a self-righteous ignoramus. Casey Sheehan was cut down by foreign insurgents, the same Saudi-Iranian-Syrian animals that carved up Nick Berg. But to Cindy, the man who killed her son is George Bush. Cindy believes Bush lied about our reasons for going to war and thus led her son to his death through outright deceit.
The "Bush Lied" theory has been debated and discredited but Anti-War Mom hasn't noticed. Cindy Sheehan isn't outside the Bush ranch as a truth-seeker. She's there for her public-relations potency. "I want people to know the real costs of war," she says. A mother grieving her loss. The inhumanity of war. Oh, the wickedness of it all. It's the anti-Iraq War Propaganda Machine working the sewer again.
The philosophy of the September 10th movement can be boiled down to this: "If we hadn't started anything....... then nothing would have started." Like a parent encouraging a child to avoid bullies by walking 2 blocks out of the way, the September 10th movement believes that avoidance and non-engagement would have been the way to avert 9/11, the Gulf War, Beirut...maybe even World War Two. Since that didn't happen, the anti-Iraq war Poseurs set out to revise history so they can shore up politically. "Clinton had nothing to do with any of this. It was all Bush and he (just to add a touch of true malevolence) LIED!!" No proof is offered of course. Proof means truth. And the truth is this war was unavoidable, brought on by an historic clash of culture and ideal, powered by the American people themselves, rising to meet the future, pissing off the rag heads.
Anti-War Mom raised her children in the American culture of struggle, progress, success and failure. Like many, she refused to take ownership of her government, preferring the platitude of loving her country. No people own their government more than the American people. And no other people in the world more strenuously disassociate from it when the going gets tough. And the going is always the toughest when times are good and war arrives. For Cindy Sheehan and millions of other moms the inconvenience of this could not be overstated. While she was busy chasing the good life, made possible by the millions of backstairs deals cut globally everyday through American corporations and politicians (not to mention enforced by an international security apparatus) her good life was coming up against other considerations authored in the caves of Pakistan.
At first, since it was a question of country, not government, Anti-War Mom supported the war although her loyalty to one and not the other began to impede her ability to understand things clearly. When news arrived of her sons death, her tenuous line to reality snapped. Not only was she not at all responsible for her government, she didn't much like the country either, lecturing her fellow citizens on the costs of war, arrogant in the depths of her ignorance about the prices others have paid.
Anti-War Mom might be powerful had she any ideas of her own. But since she is a mouth-piece for the September 10th movement her guns are empty. The Anti-War movement in America continues to lack anything approaching ideas or answers. But it does encourage Anti-War Mom to live in the past. It's where her son lives, they tell her. So she joins the other wayfarers in the desert, nomads whose camels follow the camel ahead, all going in a circle.
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Miss Cindy has a history of tax evasion and quite a reputation for left wing political causes preceeding her son's death.
Dammit, get over it.
Chris Norton would definitely call her a two or maybe three-bagger.
"When heroes die, their deaths should not be disgraced by acts that harm the legacy of those who gave all for their country. I know you mean well, but consider the larger impact of these acts on history, before 'giving room' to a nutty left-wing loser with nothing better to do than hold a pity-party in view of all those who hate America. This woman deserves nothing more than a swift kick in the ass."
Well said.
Ya think?
I may never have the satisfaction of having my belief verified, but I suspect that Casey joined the military for the express purpose of getting away from the stupid, fat, ugly cow.
Only a fool would make that statement.
Of course she's different.
D'OH!
Ha! So, right you are about everything you said. But I seriously do feel bad for the loss of her son, the only thing that I would like to know is why she is waiting until now to Rally against Bush?
Also, my husband is currently serving in Iraq right now....He always tells me that if anything ever happens and he doesn't come back home, to let people know that he went out doing what he loved to do -fighting for our country!!! (Thank God I've never had to say that) My point being- I'm sure that Casey felt the same way and his mother is making an ass of herself!!! (But hey, what can we expect from her if she's been a follower of Michael Moore?? The Pompous Ass, Schmuck of the Left Side)
Dear Cherie,
Thank you for verifying our suspicions.
I have nothing but respect and gratitude for Casey and the sacrifice he made. I am calmed by the knowledge that most of his family agrees with the feelings on most of us, and honor his memory.
Please, if you can, tell us more about Casey...
Why not? She has hated this country, President Bush, the VP, and others in President Bush's cabinet for winning in 2000 and 2004. Do some searching on this person who has been a leftist for many many years. This is not her pain but her hatred showing through. The media should stop covering her in her few minutes of MSM fame.
Had her son died in the Twin Towers 9/11 disaster, she would still find an excuse to blame Bush. This is what the Lefties do. If Bush had not been "selected" as President, those terrorists would not have flown into those buildings. Yes, as usual it's all Bush's fault.
Very well said. The soldiers pay the price for freedom of this country. I remember reading about the soldiers with George Washington going into battle in the snow and cold without adequate clothing. My ancestors have fought in every war from the Rev. War on.
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If Casey Sheehan were alive, he'd knock you on the floor for calling his mother that name. Nobody - no sane decent person - no matter how much they disagree with their mother, would either call her that name or stand by while somebody else did. She's nutty, yes -- But you reveal yourself as an phony "supporter of the troops" -- and a lowlife - by calling the mother of a dead soldire by that loathsome name.
Casey would knock you flat, I'm sure.
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